The Peter Potts Book of World Records: A True Account of the Astounding Feats of Peter Potts and Joey Gootz, As Witnessed and Sworn to by Me, Peter Potts - Hardcover

Hicks, Clifford B.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0805004092 ISBN 13: 9780805004090

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co, 1987

Synopsis

Although he is angry and confused because of the impending arrival of his older sister's baby in a family he thinks is already perfect, twelve-year-old Pete finds a welcome distraction in his best friend's disastrous attempts to set several new world records.Thirteen-year-old Peter Potts and his best friend, Joey, come up with a host of ingenious--but ill-fated--schemes to set a world record

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From School Library Journal:

Grade 3-6 A new series of adventuresor rather, misadventuresfeaturing the re doubtable 12 year old. Peter's laconic friend Joey Gootz is mad to set a world's record, any sort of world's record. A huge cotton candy maker spreads gloops of melt ed sugar all over the basement walls, and a giant kite drags him off his feet and into the air, but these are minor setbacks. As usual, Peter both organizes and records each ef fort. The two lads get better as they go along (the ``world's biggest kid's parade'' that they plan to benefit a young friend who needs a kidney transplant goes off without a hitch and nets a pile of money), but Peter finds his own record right at home when he helps his sister deliver her daughterthe ``World's Greatest Baby.'' Hicks is a fine storyteller, and he spices these small-town antics with homespun wisdom and an as sortment of warm-hearted characters. John Peters, New York Public Library
Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
• Publication date: 1987
• ISBN 10: 0805004092
• ISBN 13: 9780805004090
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 101
• Illustrator: Howell Kathleen Collins